Database research record2015·Belgium (Ghent)
Informal planning in a transactive governmentality. Re-reading planning practices through Ghent’s community gardens
Chiara Certomà, Bruno Notteboom
Planning Theory
Urban Farm DB summary
This article examines a new planning mode involving collaboration between state, private, and community actors in the context of urban gardening movements. It analyzes urban gardening projects in Ghent, Belgium, to explore the transformation of planning practices. The article concludes that urban gardening exemplifies an emerging informal planning mode supported by a transactive governmentality, potentially leading to co-creative transformation of public urban space.